The Blue and the Gray Clare Grundman Score

Clare Grundman

Subtitle: A Civil War Suite

General Info

Year: 1961
Duration: c. 9:10
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00   |   Score Only (print) - $12.95

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo I-II
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including"

• Bass Drum
• Crash Cymbals
• Gong
• Orchestra Bells
• Snare Drum
• Triangle
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Subtitled Civil War Suite, this excellent work offers a well-balanced and skillful setting of famous Civil War songs including: Kingdom Coming; Marching Through Georgia; The Yellow Rose of Texas; Battle Cry of Freedom; Battle Hymn of the Republic, and others. The treatment of these well-known melodies effectively portrays the emotions of a divided nation.

- Program Note from publisher

This suite -- more of a medley, actually -- was written for the centennial observance of the American Civil War. Nearly all of the songs were composed and published during war years except for The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which was copyrighted in 1857 and was first popular as Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us? The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Marching through Georgia were popular in the North, while Dixie, The Bonnie Blue Flag, and The Yellow Rose of Texas were whistled, played and sung by the Confederates. Kingdom Coming, Tenting Tonight, and Aura Lee were sung and loved by both sides.

- Program Note from Program Notes for Band

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
• Audio CD: Halifax Concert Band - 2008

State Ratings

• Iowa: III
• Louisiana: III
• Michigan: Junior High A
• Michigan: Senior High B
• New York: Concert Band IV
• South Carolina: IV
• Virginia: IV

Performances

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• Solano Winds Community Concert Band (Fairfield, Calif.) (Bill Doherty, conductor) - 6 May 2022
• Western Illinois University (Macomb) Wind Ensemble (Mike Fansler, conductor) - 11 November 2021
• Eldred (N.Y.) Central Senior High School Concert Band (Brian D. Nivison, conductor) - 6 June 2019
• Atlantic Wind Ensemble (Ocean Grove, N.J.) (Eliot Prowse, conductor) – 25 May 2019
• Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) Concert Band (Mark Kadetsky, conductor) – 25 April 2019
• Oneonta (N.Y.) Community Concert Band (Rene Prins, conductor) – 11 November 2018
• Michigan State University (East Lansing) Campus Band (Connor Fetting, conductor) - 29 November 2017
• Ravenscroft Band – Spring 2015

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1954/2006/2017)

All Wind Works

• American Folk Rhapsody No. 1 (1948)
• American Folk Rhapsody No. 2. See: Second American Folk Rhapsody
• American Folk Rhapsody No. 3 (1970)
• American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 (1977)
• A Bernstein Tribute (as arranger) (1991)
• The Black Knight (1956)
• The Blue and the Gray (1961)
• The Blue and the Gray (arr. Longfield) (1961/2013)
• The Blue-Tail Fly (1951)
• Burlesque for Band (1967)
• Caprice for Clarinets (1961)
• Chorale from "Concord" (arr. Longfield) (1988/2018)
• Concord (1987)
• Concertante for Alto Sax and Band (1973)
• A Copland Portrait (as adapter) (1986)
• A Copland Tribute (as arranger) (1986)
• An English Christmas (1982)
• English Suite (1968)
• Fantasy on American Sailing Songs (1952)
• Fantasy on English Hunting Songs (1985)
• The Green Domino (1951)
• Hebrides Suite (1962)
• An Irish Rhapsody (1971)
• Japanese Rhapsody (1969)
• Kentucky 1800 (1954/1987)
• Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1954/2006/2017)
• Little English Suite (1968)
• Little Suite for Band (1957)
• March Processional (1950)
• A Medieval Story (1966)
• Music for a Carnival (1957)
• Nocturne for Harp and Band (1975)
• Quiet Christmas (1959)
• A Scottish Rhapsody (1981)
• Second American Folk Rhapsody (1959)
• Señor, Señor (1963) (as Carlos Guermo)
• Slava! (as transcriber) (1977/1978)
• A Somerset Rhapsody (as transcriber) (1906/1927/1980)
• Spirit of '76 (1964)
• Three Sketches for Winds (1969)
• Two Moods (1947)
• Tuba Rhapsody
• A Welsh Rhapsody (1968)
• Western Dance (1968)

Resources

• Grundman, C. (1961). The Blue and the Gray: Civil War Suite [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: [New York].
• Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 256.

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